Aaron Johnson

It is beautiful, yes, but it is beautiful because of what it masks, not in spite of it.

Reflection

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Join Him


Jim Carrey Emanates Pure Love:... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4cbzUG2V-I...

The Sight


How many people will you see in your life?... Will see you?... As you walk through this world......

New School


I think many of us here would agree that one of the most sorely needed initiatives in our society today is a more integral approach to education.  Education systems around the world have fallen into a degree of stagnation, using old and outdated models left over from the industrial... Read More

Fiction and Poetry


 I have, for a while, been very skeptical of the difference between poetry and fiction, though now I think I may have found one.  While poetry frequently seems and exercise in linguistics, engaging primarily the linguistic line of intelligence, fiction engages, as its... Read More

What's in a name?


 I was doing some Wikipedia surfing and ran into this:... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integralism... For me it begs the question... is it a problem for us self-styled "Integralists" that the term "Integralism" contains, within its history, associations with... Read More

ISism


It strikes me that what seems, from my perspective, the biggest challenge for this self-styled "integral" community in the coming years will be really getting at an authentic expression of the relationship between nonduality and everyday, relative life.  The Two Truths... Read More

Choice and Consequence


 A Factual Tale:... I was flipping through channels on the television in the common room of my dormitory.  BET was playing The Matrix: Revolutions, and I stopped to watch for a moment or so.  Not having time to appreciate the entire film at this juncture, I moved to turn... Read More

Puritan Sex


It is 3:02 p.m. on Tuesday, March 17, 2009. I am reflecting on love and lust and human emotion. Puritanism, it occurs to me, is a form of masturbation. Denial, repression, and the like are done because they are pleasurable just as much as tendencies considered more “hedonistic” are.... Read More